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Top Gear producer on Stig book: "He's ours"

Who is the Stig? That question is consistently one of Google's top queries, proving the world wants to know the identity of Top Gear's masked racing driver. But... ask yourself again, Do you really want to know who the Stig is?

As pointed out by Top Gear producer Andy Wilman, part of the reason we all care so much about the Stig is because of the mystery surrounding his identity. What's more, his character is owned and was created and nurtured by the BBC – just the same as a camera or the film used to record a scene belongs to the British broadcaster, so does intellectual property like this suspiciously fast driving character.

We can't argue with that, especially after reading Wilman's take on the subject. Perhaps once the man behind the mask is no longer under the employ of the BBC and bound by his signed contract, we'll be free to know his true identity and read his memoirs. Until then, though, Top Gear seems ready to do all it can to keep the Stig's alter ego a closely guarded secret. Including fighting a battle with HarperCollins in court to keep an autobiography from being published.

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Anonymous

5 Years Ago

What I like about this whole matter is this: The Stig is like the UFO phenomena. UFOs are 'real' and so too, the 'man' inside the white suit is real - at least there's enough substantial evidence for both to justify believing in them - and just like the military's strangle-hold on the identity of UFOs, so too the BBC's stangle-hold on the identity of the Stig brings up a question: Is the Stig really an alien?!

Anonymous

5 Years Ago

This is a case of never meet your childhood heroes... Lets say he does reveal his identity, yea we will all kinda go "yeah!", and the man will get lots of attention and money, and fame. He'll have his year of prime, and after he will end up on youtube, drunk, trying to prove that he CAN ride a bicycle... Stig is an Icon, a man behind the mask is not.

Anonymous

5 Years Ago

some say he was resuscitated from the ashes of ancient gods, and those who dare to look under his visor will no longer speak a word for the rest of their lives. All we know is that he is call the stig.